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Sanders County Democrat • • • • • • - VOLUME J. PLAINS. MONTANA. FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1910. • NUMBER 24 NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Palouse roads are in bud shape, •according to reports. Fall -sown wheat and rye have stood the winter frosts in fine shape and are well advanced for this time of the .year. Four women and six men, two of whom are Chinese physicians, were ar- rested at Seattle recently on charges of practicing medicine without a state license. At Walla Walla Prosecuting Attorney Smith and Sheriff liaviland recently served warrants on men accused of ,gambling, eight men having been caught up to midnight. In an explosion at the Dupont Pow- der works near Tacoma recently three workmen were instantly killed and sev- eral injured. The dead are Eugene AloeIon, Julian Witten and Charles Holden. Bids for the construction of a hydro- electric plant on the Entiat river, to cost approximately $500,000, will be -opened early in April and it is said construction will be commenced as 'soon as the contract is let. Oil Inspector F. A. Clark of Everett will retain his position, Governor Hay being convinced that there Is no merit to the charges brought against the in - 'Spector by the relatives of Clark's dis- charged former chief deputy. The highest price ever paid for a .quarter section in the vicinity of Pa- louse was given Saturday afternoon by John Nagle for the J. T. Simpson farm, five miles east of Palouse, which he bought for $90 an acre, or $14,000. City Marshal \Jack'' Dietriek, who 'was killed by Martin Kloos, who later shot himself Thursday night while serv- ing as city marshal at Northport was shot in the groin four years ago as he was making au arrest, by a half-breed, and came near dying at that time. Ejected from the ministry because it is alleged be had resorted to writing worthless checks when he found it MI possible to live os the salary, H. D. -Stanley, a former minister of the Methodist church in Seattle, is under arrest for fraudulently taking subscrip- tions to a fashion paper. His arrest brought a flood of messages to police headquarters, showing that lie is wanted in Tacoma and Ever qt for various of- fenses. Charles Ufen, a saloonkeeper and poli- lieian of Georgetown, a brewery suburb of Seattle, was removed Saturday from the jury panel of the superior court in which he had been serving, placed. in the prisoners' dock and sentenced to 30 days in jai/ and to pay a fine for sell- ing liquor to minors. Ufen had been convicted of selling liquor to an auto- mobile party of girls and boys, three of whom were accidentally killed soon after starting home. IDAHO JOTTINGS. The Idaho Northern has a large force of men at work on its line between Enaville and Murray repairing the dam- age caused by high water. Little Ira Russel], who wandered away from Coeur d'Alene City while playing with his brother, was found drowned in a small creek near Spirit Lake. A great strike has Just been made on the Mackie property, near the Anaconda mine, six miles by trail from Newsome and about four from the Harmon -Mor- row mine. Governor Brady visited the Lewiston State Normal school recently and ex- pressed _himself as extremely pleased with the manner in which the appropri- ation for the new normal buildings had been expended. Fred Gruber, sentenced at Coeur d'Alene city to hang May 20 at Boise for the killing of J. H. Billings, and Oscar Snyder, sentenced to from one to 14 years in state prison for stealing chickens, were taken to Boise by F. D. Rith, a guard of the prison. The efforts of thd government to prove that 6,24fracres on which the Washington Water Power company was given an easement for $1.25 an acre is susceptible of drainage and there- fore valuable for farming is ended at Coeur d'Alene. Professors McCafferty and Chedsey of the mining department, with about a dozen mining students, will spend the spring vacation from April 9 to 17 in and around the mines afid smelters at Rowland and Trail, I3ritinh Columbia. 'The party will leave Moscow the even- ing of April R. Whether Charlen Rundaye, aged 24, employed 'at a logging camp - near Ena- vale, was murdered while tinder the influence of liquor and his body thrown into the pond or he fell in while trying to cross and was drowned, is a ques- tion Coroner L. E. Hanson will try to solve. Superintendent of the state fish hatchery, located on the south side of Lake Pend Oreille, D. L. Oliver, has left tor the southern part of the state, where he will superintend the taking of fish spawn from mountain streams of that section of the state. During the coming season about' 600,000 eggs will be received and hatched at thiJ hatchery, the matured fish to be planted in the streams of the six counties in the northern part of the state. Mr. Oliver will be gone about two months. Idaho corn -fed hogs have wrested the laurels from their corn -fed middle western cousins, according to returns received by C. C. Day of Asotin, who recently shipped to the Union Stock- yards company of Portland 60 head of 10 and 18 months old hogs that aver- aged 336 pounds each, and sold for 11 1-2 cents a pound. The returns said they were the finest lot of bogs that had ever come into Portland and that the price brought was the highest in the United States since the civil war. The purchase of Magill's business is a part of the plan formulated by the farmers' union convention held in Lewiston a short time ago, when North Idaho and Asotin county, Wash., were formed into a district to establish a system of farmers' warehouses, and other grain storage plants at different points in Nez Perce and Idaho coun- ties are being negotiated for. The farmers of Orangeville and Penne will also operate houses of their own the coming season, a company having been formed there in the last few days which has leased the houses of the Interior Warehouse company. MONTANA NEWS. Clinton Smith, an old-time rancher of Tobacco Plain, committed suicide re- cently by shooting himself with a .30- .30 carbine. Professor Condon, for eight years city superintendent of Helena schools, has received notice of election to a similar position at Providence, R. I., and will accept. Kalispell Odd Fellows have just bought three lots, 75 feet, on First ave- nue west and Third street, where they will erect a lodge hall. Five thousand and five hundred dollars was paid for the site. The Spokane Jefferson society has received word from Governor Edwin L. Norris that the subject of the latter's Jefferson day address in, this city, April 13, will be \Policies of Jefferson, the Creed of the Nation.\ Plumbers who now receive $6 a day of eight hours at Great Falls have made a demand upon the master plumbers for a raise of a dollar a day with half hol- iday Saturday. If the demand is not granted the men will strike. Eli Lumbardi is in the county jail at Butte accused of having shot and killed Lad. Petraneaovieli.,-wnd wound: ing Pozo Jakavich, presumably in can - sequence of a quarrel about a game of cards. The shooting occurred in a ell• loon. After piling all his effects in a neat heap ou the bed, writing a note to a friend and directing the details of his interment, Peter Weiss, smelterman at (heat Falls, swallowed carbolic acid. He was found dead on the floor beside his couch. Charles Ordish, who trapped during the month of February in the Yakt country, was filed with the county clerk and recorder his claim for bounty on 10 timber wolves, which he trapped dur- ing that month. • As the state pays a bounty of $10 each for timber wolves, Mr. Ordish's claim amounts to $100. In addition to the wolves he also killed several mountain lions in this vicinity for that purpose. Governor Norris has received a letter from Secretary Ballinger stating that there will be no more cause for com- plaint of dismiseal of clerks in the fed- eral land office in this state. Montana is making a half million acre lieu selec- tion, for lands as substitute for lands surrendered in forest reservations, and, getting no results, made protest in its own behalf through the governor, .and also for the benefit of now settlers isto are now flocking into the state by the hundreds. The secretary informs the governor that extra clerks will be added to handle all business promptly. At the present rate there will be no govern - meat land left in the Great Falls dis- trict by the first of July, according to; the register. The supreme court has handed down six opinions, in one of which an im- porlant rule of law was laid down. Sitrah Moment sued the Butte Electric Railway company in the federal court for damages and lost in a personal in- jury action. She started it again in the district court and won only to have the judgment reversed and appeal dis- missed because it was once tried on its merits end adjudicated on the came filets in the federal court.` In another .-ass the superior court refused Alta Miley damages against the Northern Pi- elSe for failure to deliver her at the lpoint to whith she was ticketed, but at nearest point where train stopped, Tecate'. her ticket was purchased at a l lower rate than the regular fare. Other issues were unimportant. SUMMARY OF NEW SHORT ITEMS CUPP FROM DAMES. NEARLY ALL PARTS OF TILE WORLD ARE REPRESENTED HEREWITH. Professor Richard von Zeyneek of tile University of Prague has discovered a method cif warming the interior of the human body by electricity. A second great strike has just been made in the famous old War Eagle mine at Roasland, B. C., now the prop- erty of the Canadian Consolidated co - pant. Thirty-one civilian candidates for ap- pointment as second lieutenants in the Coast artillery corps have successfully passed the required examinations and will receive appointments. Five million dollars will be spent on improvements to its northwestern gas, electric and telephone systems by H. M. Bylleeby & Co. of Chicago, lB., ac- cording to recent information. George B. French, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad, announces that $1,500,000 will be ex- pended in improvements on the line between Portland and Spokane during the present year. Bud Stephens, the former cowboy who shot and killed Dodd Mackenzie, son of Murdo Mackenzie of Colorado Springs, Col., was found not guilty at Aver - devil, S. D. The lea of self-deiense was accepted by the jury. Every one of the torpedo boat de- stroyers composing the Atlantic torpedo fleet except the Presteu and the Lam- son exceeded its contract speed on the recent run from Key West to Pensa- cola, a distance of about 450 knots. A prairie fire started near the town of Dickens, Neb., Saturday, swept northward, carried by a terrific wind, to the Platte river. It swept a path 15 to 20 miles wide. A number of per- sons lost their homes and live stock. Robert C. Clowry of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph company deifies the rumor circulated over the country to the effect that his company and the Postal company had decided to increase the wages of operators by 10 per cent. Europe is to see again many of the ships that made up the great American astral fleet that encircled the globe. Secretary Meyer skated that it was his present intention to order the Atlantic fleet to the Mediterranean some time in November next. Mrs. Henry W. Page of Trenton, N. J., ha e brought suit for $20,000 dam- ages against Professor Howard McLen- ahan .and Edward Plymton of Princeton university, alleging that they burned her husband so severely with. X-rays that lie died of his injuries. The twelfth annual convention of the Inland Empire Teachers' associa• tion came to an end at Pendleton, Ore., with the selection of Spokane as the place for the next meeting, and with the selection of officers. Henry M. Hart of Spokane was elected secretary. The historic old Dutch Reformed church at Bloomfield, N. J., built in 1800, hi a mass of smoldering ruins as a result of a fire that swept through. the structure Saturday night. The church wee one of the oldest in the state. The fire was caused by burning grass in nearby fields, lighted by mis- chievous boys. The loss will exceed $25,000. George Fassell, owner of a grocery in the residence part of Salt Lake City, was shot and killed by holdup men the other night. Fassell was alone in his store wben three men entered and com- pelled him to hand over the contents of the cash drawer, amounting to about $25. As they were leaving the store Passel] attempted to give an alarm, and one of the robbers turned and shot him. Harry Thorn, later arrested, confessed to the crime, naming John Hays and a man called Curly as associates. By the terms of a contract recently signed between the Western Steel cor- poration of Seattle, and the Hang Yang Steel company of Hankow, China, the Seattle company is to obtain 200,000 tons of pig iron and ore per annum from the Ilankow company. The con- tract is to run 15 years. Coincident with the signing of the contract for the importation of the pig iron from China it is announced that the steel company immediately will begin the construction of new plants involving the expenditure of $10,000,000. Weide on Train. Salem, Ore., March nib—Andrew .Ttickson Casey, aged 55, en route from Roseburg to Spokane, slashed his jugu- lar vein with a pocket knife while near- ing Salem, Ore. A contented man is always deb, al- though he is frequently broke. SPORTING NEWS ITEMS. IT'S DRY The Langford-Ketchel fight is dated for April 27. Michigan defeated Cornell in an out- toor track meet Saturday, 54 1-3 to 2•3. The National Lawn Tennis associa- tion, through its executive committee, fleeting in New York, has given the Lewiston (Idaho) State normal the priv- lege of holding the second annual Idaho -itate Tennis tournament on the school ',oats beginning Juue 7. Stanley Ketchel's last battle with Klaus is open to some suspicion in the minds of eastern sporting writers. On the other hand, some think that the' 'Assassin . ' has gone to the dogs rapidly since his last fight with Jack Johnson. Seattle carried off the honors of the northwest Y. M. C. A. wrestling cham- pionships, held there Saturday. Seattle :nen took five out of the seven cham- pionships, Tacoma and Portland each getting one, while Everett Y. M. C. A., the only other entry, did not succeed in getting to the finals. New Football Rules. Six far-reaching changes in the game of football were decided upon recently by the intercollegiate football rules COID- Inittee at the close of a two days' ses- sion in New York city. The changes in the outline are: 1. Removal of the requirement that the player who receives the ball from the snap -back run five yards to either side before advancing. 2. A requirement that seven men be maintained by the offense on the line of scrimmage. 3. Prohibition of the flying tackle. 4. Division of the game into four periods of 15 minutes each. 5. No pushing or pulling of the run- ner to be allowed. 6 e , All requirement that the ball, in the case of an on -side kick, must strike the ground at least 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, failing which the members of the team kicking the ball are offside. HARNESS RACING DATES. California Circuit. Monterey Agricultural society, Sa- linas, August 3 to 6. Woodland Driving club, August 31 to September 3. California State fair, Sacramento, September 3 to 10. North Pacific Circuit. Everett, Wash., August 30 to Sep- tember 3. Portland, Ore., September 5 -to 10. Salem, Oregon State fair, September 12 to 17. Walla Walla, Wash., September 19 to 24. \ North Yakima, Wash., September 26 to October 1. Spokane, Wash., October 3 to 8. Lewiston and Boise, Idaho, October 10 to 15. There is now talk of a great fight carnival in and near San Francisco dur- ing the early days of July equaling the famous three days of fighting in New Orleans, which concluded with the snuffing out of John L. Sullivan as the American heavyweight champion. Jack Johnson goes in training April 25, near Frisco. CHILDREN AWAIT DEATH. Lie in Row at Maniac Father's Order. Hartford, Conn.—An insane father was prevented from Butchering his four little children on the banks of the Connecticut river the other day by the timely arrival of the police. When located back of the bushes his four boys were partly undressed and were lying in a row, the maniac father, Valehtine Chingle, standing over them with an uplifted ax. The children ranged in age from 2 to 7. A boy of 4 was to have been the first victim. The child was lying be- neath the shining blade with a cruci- fix in one band, calmly awaiting his fate. The others, under orders of the maniac, had removed part of their elothing and were terrified spectators. BRIEF NEWS DISPATOBES. Milton .1. Stapled', aged 28, a brake - Lean, was killed at Coeur d'Alene city Idaho, last Monday. Thieves stole $85.000 worth of stamps at Richmond, Va., from the pontoffloe and made their getaway. In the fate] accident on the U. S. cruiser Charleston at Manila last Mon- day eight men were killed and several Slightly injured. During parotine a 8 -inch gun blew Out and its flight across the deck out through a steel ntanohion and mowed down the men. The dead: Philip McKee. Walter Armtek!, Harry Heaton, Leo Rental., Harry Oradea, Ross Berkman, Maxie Barnard, 'In- ward Moline. Fund of $500,000 Oompleted. New York, March 25.=—The $500,000 fund which the American Bible eoeiety has for more than a year been seeking to raise has been completed. As the twig is 'bent so is the small boy often 'inclined across his mother's knee. FARMING FEW FACTS PRESENTED BY D. T. HAM, MODERN SYSTEM OF CULTIVA- TION IN U. S. SPREADS TO FOREIGN LANDS. Probably no subject of public inter- est in recent years has attracted such wide attention or spread so rapidly as that of dry farming. Four gatherings have been held for the discussion of this subject and preparations are now going forward for the fifth convention of the Dry Farming congress and Interna- tional Dry Farming exposition, which will be held in Spokane the first week in October. Every state and territory in the so - called arid and the semi -arid west and many of the states in the humid dis- tricts of the United States are pre- paring to send delegates to this con- gress, and the provinces of western Canada and the provinces and nations on every continent are also making ar- rangements for representation with delegates and exhibits. Not only agriculturists and opera- tive farmers, but scientists of the fore- most agricultural colleges and experi- ment stations, of the national depart- ments of agriculture of many govern- ments, as well as economists and pub- licists everywhere are interested in this movement. Wonder of Age. The growth of the dry farming move , meat is one of the wonders of the present age. A term that was pro- vocative of incredulous smiles and deprecatory jests live years ago, today is recognized as symbolical of the higher agriculture toward which all na- tions are striving. The first meeting, at which the Trans -Missouri Dry Farm- ing . congress was formed, was regarded as a joke; the fifth Dry Farming con- gress, which will meet in Spokane, holds the serious attention of nations. Growth Phenomenal. The growth of the dry farming move- ment has been phenomenal in that it has spread to all quarters of the globe di four years, but its advancement to the front of public questions in eco- nomic importance is particularly notice- able in the western United States and Canada. Five years ago there were a few farmers struggling against adversity on the plains of eastern Colorado, in New Mexico, Utah and elsewhere in the semi- arid west. The settlers who took up land in nen-irrigable sections of the west were regarded as foolhardy, or worse. Their efforts to make the dry farms productive were condemned as in- viting nothing but failure. Early Settlers Struggle& Mauy settlers who had gone into the dry regions did fail and many struggled along for years eking out a bare existence with the aid of a few exceptionally propitious years, but num- bers succeeded. Scattered throughout the west in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and in other states were more or less isolated exceptions to the ex- pectations of the pessimists. In some sections, notably in eastern Washing- ton, Oregon and Utah, there were notable exceptions, and in these states dry farming was accepted as a fact. Five years age the newspapers of the country were reluctant to publish articles of the successes of dry farm- ing. There was a prevalent idea throughout the east that the greater part of the west was useless for farm- ing; that desert land would remain bar- ren and desolate, where the irrigating ditch was unknown, and that so-called dry farming was ridiculous in concep- tion and impracticable in application. Scientific Cultivation. The failures that have been recorded among the settlers on the dry lands and Om prejudice in the mindw of east- ern and western skeptics against dry farming had a common origin—in ignorance of the conditions under which dry farming was attempted and of the methods necessary to successful dry farming. The settlers who found the eonditione on the dry lands too hard, did uot know how to combat those con- ditions. They did not know how to plow their ground, what kind of seed to plant, what kind of cultivation to give their growing or dying crops. In brief, they did not understand the conserva- tion of moisture or the scientific cul- tivation of soil. The unbelievers \in the emit did not know the west, did not understand the conditions necessary to successful farm- ing in any region, did not believe the facts when they were presented, be- cause they did not know the west. Skeptics in the west did not know their west or were influenced by motives of selfish interest, inspired by a mistaken idea that the settlement of the country by farmers was somehow in conflict with their own private interests. When the Trans -Missouri Dry Farm- ing congress was organized, John T. Burns, then secretary of the Colorado State Commercial association, perceived the causes behind the failures among the dry land settlers and grasped the possibilities of dry farming if the proper methods were placed at the corn- inand of the dry farmers. , He saw that education must be the keynote if it would be effective in the upbuilding of the west. The congress struggled against prejudice until the third annual session at Cheyenne, Wyo., when it threw off all shackles of localization and became an international movement. A systematic campaign of education was carried on and it resulted in bring- ing dry farming to the attention of the leading editors in all parts of the country. Educational Work Started. Educational work among the settlers of the west was instituted by Secretary Burns at the beginning of the congress and fanners everywhere were impressed with the fact that dry farmers who knew and practiced the fundamental principles of dry farming were success- ful. Demand for more education came with the growth of the movement, until today scores of letters are received daily from all parte of the west inquir- ing about dry farming and asking ques- tions aboet the problems arising in their daily work. Has Made Converts. The Dry Farming congress gives the farmer the knowledge he requires for successful agriculture in the semi -arid west. The principles of scientific agri- culture are being carried into the homes of , the farmers. Dry farming has \made good\ in all sections of that vast area between the 98th meridian and the Pacific ocean where rainfall is limited and where irrigation is im- possible or impracticable. Because farm- ers who have followed dry farming methods have succeeded by conscien- ' tioufdy applying the principles of mois- ture conservation and intelligent Whip as taught in the literature of the Dry Farming congress, a great wave of set- tlement has been started toward the Dakotas, western Kansas and Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Okla- homa, western Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, eastern Washington and Oregon, Arizona and Nevada. In these states and territories towns are springing up on the sage -brush plains and in sandhi]] districts, sur- rounded with prospering dry farmers. Dry farming has become a vital part of the economic development of the na- tion. Because of the importance of it, part in national development the eyes of the country will turn toward Spokane next October when the congress meets and thousands will come from all sec- tions to see the evidences of dry farm- ing successes that are now being pre- pared in the various states and territories of the semi -arid west for exhibi- tion in the International Dry Farming exposition.—By David T. Ham, Chair- man Washington Board of Control, Fifth Dry Farming Congress. Justice Brewer Suddenly Dies Washington, March 29.—David Jo- siah Brewer, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. died Monday night at 10:80 o'olook of a stroke of apopleky. His death oc- curred before eh could be carried to his bed. Mrs. Brewer was with him when the end came. Justice Brewer was 73 years old. The end was altogether unexpected. Although he had not been feeling good for the last day or so, the aged jurist was up and out Monday, and apparent- ly in good health and spirits. He spent the evening reading. Shortly before tie retired to his room. and within a few minutes Mrs. Brewer heard a heavy fall and went to investi- gate. She found her husband prone on the floor of the bath room. He did not regain conaciiounnees and died oe- fore a physioau could reach the house. Justice Brewer came to the supreme oourt from the federal court iu Kansas. He was the second oldest member of the court..Tuntice Harlan only being his senior. Be was regarded as the most democratic of all the members of the court, most affable, approachable and accommodating. Ile was the one man on the bench who had proof copies of his opinions prepared for the news- papers, and this he did constantly. Juetioe Brewer's death rabies a rim -- ions question as to the action of the (went regarding the Standard Oil and American Toba000 company snits, and it is improbable that the cased will have to be retried, since there now re- main but seven justices to pass upon them, Justicie Moody not having par- ticipated in the trials by reason of con- tinued illness. BODIES ARE STILL IN RUINS. Search Continue. in Smouldering Debris for Bodies of rire Victims. Chicagn.--Search of the reins of the Fish Furniture company building, from the smouldering debris of which 12 bodies were recovered Satusklay, was resumed. Three more bodies, it is thought, are still covered by the wreek:' age. The search was temporarily dis- continued, owing to weakening walls. 1 •••
